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We have a project that needs to be build for both .NET 1.1 and 2.0 due to server compatibility issues (Windows Server 2000 and Windows Server 2003 production servers).
I am looking for help making the decision between conditional compilation or branching the code in source control. There are pros and cons for each.
One thing that would impact my solution is knowing how long I expected the 1.1 solution to survive and what its purpose was. If the solution was in maintenance mode and really wasn’t going to be adding too many new features, I would pick a separate branch solution. I would then carefully migrate needed changes between the two branches.
If however it is a full-fledged version that will have most, if not all, of the same features, I would go the conditional compilation route. Otherwise, every single check in you make would also have to be merged into another branch before it was complete.